The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-22 00:00:00

1.171-iil3,-LL FARLIAIENT 'ROUSE G E' LORDS.—Last Evening, The LORD CIIA. NCELLOR, took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. T HIRD READINGS. The following bil is were real a third time and passed : West Grinstead—C nckfield and Hayward's Heath Junc tion Railway—Nor th Devon and Soroersetshire Railway— Worcester and De an Forest and Monmouth Railway— Gl asg ow (City) Union Railway—Metropolitan, Notting hill, and Brampton Extension—Launceston, Bodmin, and Wadebridge Junction Railway—Liverpool, Central Station —.,klford and Mablethorp Railway, Tamar Kit Hill and Callington Railway—and Dsayton Junction Railway. THE SPANISH SLAVE TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM reverted to the discussion which took place on this subject the other evening for the purpose of correcting a misapprehension which existed as to the observations that fell from him. In censuring the Spanish governors of Cuba for taking bribes he specially excepted General Dolce, who, to his great honour, refused to become a party in any degree to the carrying on of the abominable traffic. All he could say was that he only wished the other Spanish colonial governors were half as good as General Dolce, because then an end would soon be put to the slave trade. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.' L^rd REDESDALE moved that no petition, praying to he heard against the Metropolitan Railway Bill, be received by the house unless received before Friday. The motion was agreed to. BURIAL REGISTRATION BILL. The report of amendments to this bill was brought up and received. WEIGIITS AND MEASURES. Earl FORTESCUE moved the second reading of the Weights and Measu res (Metric System) Bill, which had come up with the sanction of the Commons, and the advan tages c f which the noble earl dilated upon as being very considerable alike in a commercial and s scientific point of view. The IN.trarquis of SALISRURY opposed the bill, on the ground that it was an inc om pl e t e and unsatisfactory at tempt to substitute a French equivalent for the Imperial standard by the use of decimal points that would not be understood, and which could not touch the multifarious we ights and measures that did not come under the denomi nation of Imperial. Believing that the measure would be utterly impracticable, he moved as an amendment that it be read a second time that day three months. The bill was also opposed by the Earl of D ONOUGH MORE. The Duke of ARGYLL contended that the arguments relied upon by the opponents of the measure were incon clusive, and that so far from the introduction of the pro posed system being complicated and hard to understand it was marked by extreme simplicity as compared, for example, with the system of weights and measures existing in Scot land, than which nothing could be more obscure or difficult of comprehension. The Earl of FLARROWBY also supported the bill, be cause it was requirt d by a large proportion of the mercantile community, and its adoption would be permissive, not compulsory. Lord BROUGHAM was of opinion that the measure, if passed, wi uld not only prove a great convenience to the commercial classes, hut increase the spread of education by relieving the poor from the trouble of mastering an anti quated and complex system, thus wasting time that might more profitably be employed in the acquirement of other branches of knowledge. After a few words against the bill from the Earl of CAR :VARVON, and a brief reply from Earl FORTESCTJE, the house divided, and the bill was read a second time by 34 to 23. The Turnpike Acts Continuance, the Militia Pay, the Registration of Deeds (Ireland), the Justices Proceedings (Sussex), the Expiring Laws Continuance, the Highways Acts Amendment, the lonian States Acts of Parliament Repeal, and the Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bills were read a second time; as was also the Poisoned Flesh Prohi bition Bill, upon a division. by 31 to 18. The Sale of Gas (Scotland), the Naval Discipline, and the Local Government Alec (1858) Bills went through committee. The Mutual Su: render of Criminals (Prussia), tbeTharnes Embankment and Metropolis Improvements Loans, the Isle of Man Harbour Act Amendment, and the Militia Ballots Suspension Bias were read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Central Railway— Chittenden's Disabilities Removal— E:lames' Estate—Great Northern and Western (of Ire land) Railway (No. l)—Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway (No. 2) Bill—Hubberston Docks Bill— North Western Railway—Lord Harris' (Horsham, Ail Souls College) Estate—and Millwall Canal, Wharfs, and Graving Docks. INTERFEILENCE IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS. Mr A. MILLS gave notice that neat session he would move an address to the Crown that British forces should not be allowed to interfere in colonial matters. ROYAL NAVAL AFFAIRS. Mr C. BERKELEY asked the Secretary to the Ad miralty, if he considers that the officers of long standing aad high rank in the navy are satisfied with the recent distribution of pay, as lately gazetted, by which it appears that their juniors will receive more than themselves; and if he considers that the fact of officers receiving more on the retired lists than those who remain on the active lists will act beneficially in inducing officers to seek ser vice ; and if, considering the anomalies which have arisen in t`ie various rates of pay, half-pay, retired pay, and re sery ed pay, her Majesty's Government would cause any inquiry to be made either by Royai Commission or other wise. Lord C. PAGET said that he had heard no complaints on this subjP,ct from the officers of the royal navy, and th ere was no reluctance on the part of naval officers to enter into active service. Mr MILLS said he did not consider the explanation satisfactory, and that he would again draw the attention of the house to this subject. BRITISH AND FOREIGN STATE PAPERS. Mr H. SEYMOUR asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether a publication, called " The British and Foreign State Papers," issued an nually, and edited by the Librarian of the Foreign Office, was printed either wholly or in part at the public expense; and, if so, whether such a selection might not be distributed to members at the ordinary price of parliamentary papers instead of being charged 30s a volume; and whether it might not be brought up to the present time. Mr LAYARD said that the State papers were printed at the expense of the public. He said that the foreign papers could be published fully if the house wished to incur the expense. It would be impossible to produce those foreign papers as rapidly as other State papers were produced. The Secretary of the Foreign Library, who was a gentleman of zeal and energy, published two volumes of these foreign papers annually, and wished to publish three annually. DISEASED MEAT. Mr CRAWFORD asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Alex. Stewart, who was con victed at the Central Criminal Court in December, 1863, of the offence of sending diseased meat from Scotland to Lon don for sale, and sentenced to pay a fine of £5O, and imprisonment for the term of 12 calendar months, had been liberated from gaol without payment of the fine ; and if so, that he would state the grounds on which Stewart was so liberated and the fine• remitted ; and, whether applic .tions were not now before the Secretary of State for the remission of punishments and penalties in other similar cases.—He observed that during the past year no less than 114,0001 b. of diseased meat and 76,001 b. of putrid meat had been seized in the City of London. S.r G. GREY said that an application to the Home Office for a remission of the sentence was refused, and he was liberated only on the statement of the visiting justices o f Holloway Prison, that further imprisonment would aff,ct his health. WALES RESERVOIRS. In reply to _M _r FERRAND, Sir G. GREY drew attention to the law on this subject which he said did not, he believed, entitle justices of the peace to interfere in these matters. However, in certain compinies there woe provisions that authorised justices of Peace to interfere to co.npel the repair of embankments. REFUSAL OF A WINE LICENCE TO WES TON'S RETREAT. Si r G• GREY explained that there was no right of a _ . l 7_°, l except in the case when a licence had been already to be obtained, and that parties applying for licenses h ad a right heard before they were refused: FOREIGN PASSPORTS. Mr LAYARD said that the Emperor of the French, with the greatest lib eral British subject s ity, had removed all restrictions travellingon in France, and if they were asked to show a passport, it vas merely to prove their nationality. Ho could speak from subjects were not exposi:lrtmtonal experience that British to this matter, The other countries inconvenience in retard e ztries who were not r equired to havz passports w ere ni irk, Italy, Prussia, Spain, ancivra' Belgium, Den wended that En g lishmen should carry °rwaY. He recom- Reports to avoid any inconvenience. THE METROPOLITAN POOR R ELIEF Lord C, HAMILTON said that copies of this BILL. o was to be commi tted to-m o rro w , had not been a bi p i 1 10 ' Niia:aa to ich h hon. mem bers until yesterday afternoon. T his W--;,, -tuoat important bill, and conferred large powers on the Brd with property in the metropolis. ') Works in dealing . Mr GLAD STONE said that the copies had been distributed yesterday morning, when he and other mem bers received them. After some discussion, Mr. VILLIERS said that this bill had been considered upstairs for three years, and was made in confarmity with the unanimous recommendation of the committee who had duly investigated the subject. LORD PAIZIERSTON S NOTICE FOR MONDAY Nr 11T-Th.TT chaired EVENING. to make an appeal to Ili) noble lord at the head of the Government respecting his notice for the rescinding of the resolution relating to the educational in spectors' reports. The report of the select o .L. mittee re ferred to an appendix which was not yet in hands of members, and that was one reason for not proceeding as yet with the motion of which the noble ... lad given no• tice. But there was the further reason, ts et it would be most objectionable and unusual, at the very end of the session, when probably there would not be half the mem bers present who had passed the resolution, if the Govern ment were to attempt the rescission of the resolution. (Hear, hear.) He was not at all prepared to say that he was opposed to the motion of the noble lord upon its merits, but he wished as a matter of principle to protest against the endeavour to smuggle such a notice through the house. He thought it would be much more satisfactory if the question were allowed to stand over until next session, when it could be properly considered, than discuss it during the last few days of the session, when, as was well known, the business of the house was under the control of the Govern ment. (Hear, hear.) TROOPS FOR JAPAN. Lord R. MONTAGU asked upon whose authority troops of the line and marines had been sent to Japan. Was it upon the authority of the Cabinet, or upon the authority of some subordinate officer P If it was upon the authority of some subordinate, he wished to know what the noble lord proposed to do with the subordinate in question. He also wished to know if the noble lord was prepared to lay the despatch of General Browne upon the table before the discussion appointed for to-morrow evening came on. MINISTERIAL REPLIES. Lord PALMERSTON—The noble lord the member for Huntingdonshire (Lord &Montagu) asks under what autho rity a force of Royal Marines has been sent to Japan. Sir, the force was sent in consequence of a decision of the Cabi• net, who thought it was desirable to increase our military defences at that station. With regard to the question of the hon. member for Northamptonshire (Mr. Hunt), I have to state I thought it my duty to avail myself of the earliest moment after the report of the committee was in the hands of members, to ask the house to do justice to my right hon. friend the member for Caine (Mr. Lowe), and the depart ment to which he belonged, and to rescind the resolution which it had passed. I apprehend, in all probability, there may be quite as large an attendance of members on Mon day next as when the resolution was passed. There were not 200 members present then, and I think there will be at least that number present on Monday. tinder these cir cumstances I cannot postpone the notice which I have given. Lord HOTHAM regretted very much the decision which the noble lord had come to, and hoped he would reconsider it. He said that, considering the period of the seseion at which they had arrived, and the smallness of the attend ance which might be expected on Monday evening. There was this further objection to the course the noble viscount proposed to take. There were two parties to this question ; there was the right hon. gentleman the member tor Calne (Mr Lowe), who was there in his place, and would probably be there on Monday, and the noble lord the member for Stamford, who was not in his place, and who might not be there on Monday. Therefore he asked the noble lord not to come to a conclusion upon a point of form which might be erroneously thought to affect the facts of the case, and might give rise to some misapprehension. The subject then droppea, and the motion for the ad journment of the house was withdrawn. THE INDIAN BUDGET. Sir C. WOOD made his annual statement of the finances of India. He began by observing that the favourable anti cipations he had made in past years had been confirmed, and the hopes he had held out had been more than realised. The result was that, after an equilibrium of revenue and expenditure in one year, there has been a considerable sur plus in three successive years, £8,313,000 of debt had been paid off, and there was a balance in the Treasury of upwards of £19,000,000. There had been a steady increase, he said, in all the items of revenue, the augmentation of the land revenue having resulted from the large quantity of land taken into cultivation. He went over the other sources of supply to the Indian Exchequer, explaining, as he pro ceesled, the nature of each and the modifications they had undergone, remarking that most of them were derived from internal taxati , n, falling upon the people of India. He then adverted to the expenditure, to the increase in the pr,ce of commodities and in the rate of wages. He entered very fully into the state of the cotton cultivation, showing that there had been a progressive increase in the produc tion and in the importation of East India cotton, and stated the measures taken to eheck its adulteration. He read statements of the augmentation of the exports of other articles of Indian produce—coffee, indigo, jute, woods, tea, and chincona bark. He gave details respecting the state of public works in India, where there was now an excessive demand and competition for labour; the railroads, tele graphs, &o.; and he then, after remarking that tranquillity prevailed within our own territories in India, traced the origin of the late operations against the fanatical tribes be yond the Punjab frontier, from the time of the Mahomedan schismatic, Syed Ahmed, to that of the Akhoond of Swat, their present head, and adverted to the quarrel with the chief of Boutan and his treatment of Mr Eden, indicating the inexpensive measures to be adopted to bring the chief to reason, by occupying the passes of his territory, and cutting off ala communications and supplies. In conclusion, he re viewed some of the leading measures of the Indian local Government during the past year, and vindicated the policy and administration of the home authorities. He concluded by moving the first of a series of resolutions on the financial condition of the several Governments of British India, The resolutions presented the following result : The total net revenues of the several Presi dencies for the year ended the 30:h of April, 1863 4 L 36,662,867 The total charges Surplus of Indian revenue Interest on debt Charges defrayed in England 9,867,281 Surplus of Indian income £1,827,346 Mr H. SEYMOUR considered the statement, on the whole, highly satisfactory ; suggesting, however, the more ready sale of waste lands in India in lee-simple by the Government. Mr J. B. SMITH complained that the Indian Budget was not brought before the house at an earlier period of the session, and that it was not accompanied by the explana • tions of the Finance Minister in India. He complained likewise that so little attention was paid to opening out the internal navigation in that country. He, however, con gratulated the house upon the satisfactory character of the report given of the finances of India. Cursory observations upon the various topics touched upon in the statements of Sir C. Wood were made by Mr Kinnaird, Mr Yansittart, Mr Crawford, Mr Torrena, Mr Gregson, and other members, some of whom could not help animadverting upon the state of the house, and especially the vacant benches on the Opposition side, during this dis cussion. Sir C. WOOD made a general detailed reply to objec tions and inquiries. The resolutions were then agreed to. On the order for going into committee on the Consoli dated Fund (Appropriation) Bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained the financial changes which had affected the balance be.. tween revenue and charges for the year, the result of which had reduced the surplus, calculated by him in his budget statement at £238,000, to £65,000. After some remarks by Sir H. Willoughby, Mr J. White, and Mr Walpole, upon the subject of the surplus, Mr AYHTON called attention to the balance of po werin Europe, for the maintenance of which the army supplies ere appropriated, He observed that Prussia, as an indepen dent kingdom, apart from the Germanic Confederation, had been guaranteed in the possession of a portion of Saxony by the Treaty of Vienna. He contended that Prussia bad aeparted from that treaty by invading Schleswig and Den mark and had broken the peace of Europe, and, in the name of the people of England, he protested against this proceeding on her part, and insisted that we were not bound to adhere to the arrangements of the treaty of 1815 in respect to Saxony. Sir J. FERGUSSON remarked that if the doctrines now held were to be maintained, other treaties might be as easily set aside. Lord PALMERSTON said he did not stand up to defend the conduct of Prussia; but he could not concur with Mr Ayrton in thinking that, because Prussia had made war upon Denmark, we were relieved from the engagements and obligations we had contracted, along with other Powers, under the Treaty of Vienna. The house then went into committee upon the bill, the clauses of which were agreed to atter some discussion. On the order for the third reading of the New Zealand (Guarantee of Loan) Bill, Mr NV HALLEY called upon the Government to give an explicit answer to the question whether Governor Sir George Grey had not attributed the war in New Zsaland to the machinations of the Roman Catholic priests. Mr HENNESSY moved to defer the third reading for a month. He cited testimonies favourable to the character of the Maories, and denounced the war, which, he said, com promised the honour of the country, _ _ Mr CARDWELL reminded the house that the hostile natives occupied a very limited part of the colony, and he read a sratement of Governor Grey as to the real origin of the war, the object of which was to put down a conspiracy by a small minority of thl: natives. Upon a division, the amendment was negatived by 75 to 32. The bill was then read the third time and passed. The house then went into committee upon the Fortifica tions (Provision for Expenses) Bill, when The Ma' quis of lIARTINGTON made a short explana tory statement, in which he described the progress and con dition of the works. The clauses of the bill were agreed to, after considerable (Infusion. .The o ther orders were procee d e d with, a n d th e h ouse sojourned at half past 3 o'clock. PEnC,ayHTER As CLAUDE MEL N OTTE ! —lt i 8 TU • mou $ s a p The Lady of conte mporary, that Mr Pechter intends to roauce d " lady to play Pauli Lyons," and that he is looking for a :Kiss Kate Terry p us to hi s Claude Helnotte. Why not TIM CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times Corresponlent.) NEW YORK, July 8. Kentucky has been declared in a stage of siege, and the habeas corpus has been suspended through out its whole extent. Mr• Lincoln has appointed a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, but hesi tates to call for the 300,000 or 500,000 men so urgently needed, lest his electioneering prospects should thereby be clouded. Gold is up at a pre. mium of 171 yer cent., and is hourly advancing, Grant has been fairly checkmated at Petersburg, and has sat before it for 24 days uncertain what to de. Sherman has gone round the Kenesaw Moun tain, which he failed to capture, and approached a few miles nearer than before to the Chattachoochie and Atlanta, and Gen. Lee has invaded Maryland, threatens Pennsylvania, and scared all Washing ton, lest he should not be satisfied without captur ing Baltimore, and thence marching, all but unop• posed, through Blandenburg into the Federal cgpi tal. Such is a short summary of the situation. Yet, strange to say, most of the Federal journals find great comfort in it, and those which more particu larly make it their business to support the Admini stration are rampant in their exultation that things look so bright for the loyal and so black for the rebel cause. The suspension of law and the habeas corpus in Kentucky is too small a matter for their conside ration. The day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer will please the religious people and the " war Christians," and will answer exactly the same pur pose as if it had been a day of thanksgiving. The postponement of the draught signifies nothing, ' inasmuch as recruiting goes vigorously on, and the old soldiers are re-enlisting for the bounty. The premium on gold looks bad, it is true; but then it is the work of foreign speculators and unpatziotic gamblers, who will all be brought to grief by and by, or as soon as Mr. Fessendenn has leisure to look into the matter. Grant at Petersburg is in the very place where he ought to be, and is as eertain to take Richmond, in an easily computable num ber of days, as he was to take Vicksburg. Sherman is slow, but then he is sure, and is " bound" to take Atlanta sooner or later—a fact which is proved by the constant retreats of Johnston, who is evidently afraid to measare swords with so redoubtable an antagonist. As for the invasion of Maryland, it is a mere raid of 5,000 starving cavaliers at the most, who have gone for plunder, and will not get half as much as they expect, and who are certain to be cut off with their booty on their return homewards by the combined forces of Hunter and Sigel. Indeed, so little do these easy and happy observers of events think of the Shenandoah movement, that they ex press their fear that Lee does not intend an inva sion, and that be has not sent men enough on the expedition to make the capture of the whole posse —bag and baggage, arms, ammunition, and horses —a sufficient dangerous adventure for the Federal army to make a brag of. Bat all Americans are not so easily led astray as to believe the rosy explanations of such public in structors as these without judging of the facts for themselves. The business community has come to the conclusion that the garbled and contradictory reports of the state of Grant's and Sherman's armies—and more especially of the Confederate movement in Maryland—are not to be depended upon ; that it is more likely that Lee with 50,000 or 60,000 men intends to raise the siege of Rich mood and Petersburg by an attack upon Baltimore and Washington than that he has sent 5,000 men to break up the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, destroy Federal stores and depots, impress men and horses, and provide the destitute people and garrison of Richmond with food. They admit, without under. standing the various reports from the startled and terrified people of the Border, that whatever Gen. Lee may mean, his invasion is likely to prove a serious matter for the people of the North, and one that will tax the military genius of Gen. Grant to defeat or render innocuous, and that up to this time the balance of victory since the passage of theßapidan has been with the Confederates. It is these consider ations, combined with the knowledge that the new Secretary of the Treasury is printing off greenbacks at the rate of 2,000,000 per diem, for the payment of the arrears due to the army and navy, which un settle trade and commerce. and send up gold to a rate that reduces the value of the paper dollar to about ls. 6d. English money, instead of 4s. 2d., its normal worth in times of peace, prosperity, and specie payments- r Nor are the failure of the summer campaign and the state of the national finances the only causes of disquietude. To these, serious enough to try the philosophy of statesmen and the patience of the peopie, have to be added the danger of a collision between the State and Federal authoritits in the chief city and State of the Union. The great cause of the people of New York against General Dix has entered into a new phase. The general, remembering that in every civilised coun try where martial law has not been regularly de clared the civil law is paramount, surrendered to the warrant of the city judge, and appeared to an swer the complaint of the district attorney, that he had illegally, violently, and burglarionsly entered and retained possession for two days of the offices of the Nero York World and Journal of Commerce. to give him time to prepare his defence, the case was adjourned for a week, and will come on again to-morrow for further argument. Meanwhile, Mr Lincoln, informed either through the newspapers or by the direct agency of the legal advisers of Gen. Dix that the general had been arres.ed by civil pri.cess, wrote to him not to suffer, " under any circumstances," his personal liberty to be in. vaded, and to plead the orders of the Commander in-Chief as his justification for what he had done. In other words, Mr Lincoln has assumed the responsibility, and has dared Governor Sey mour, who is as legally and constitutionally the executive and chief magistrate of the State of New York as Mr Lincoln is the chief magistrate of the Union, to try conclusion with him on the great and vital question, whether in a city not in a state of siege the military or the civil law is supreme. It seems as if Governor Seymour, aware of the impor tance of the issue, had determined to meet it, and, in view of the possibility of a conflict between the Federal troops and the Sheriffs and other officers of the law, has ordered the militia of the State to be raised to the quota of 75,000 men, by a draught, pursuant to the State law for the organisation of the National Guard. He has at the same time di rected that no further steps shall be taken towards enrolling, equipping, and despatching the 12,000 men which Mr Lincoln has called upon him to supply for the defence of Washington and Mary land. Thus the state of affairs is eminently critical. Gen. Dix has a noble chance, such a one as rarely falls to the lot of an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic party, accomplished, gentlemanly, popular. His party—not quite agreed upon Gen. IVlTlellan, and having no other in view —is in want of a candidate to run against Mr Lin coln. Gen. Dix has but to declare that when the military and the civil law come into collision he is for the civil law—to plead ia the matter of the World and the Journal of Commerce that he obeyed the order of his superior officer, but rather than incur any future risk of becoming a bad citizen by acting as a good soldier he has resigned his position in the army, and he will (supposing always that Grant's campaign is really at an end, and that no military successes of any importance are gained by him er any one else between this and Nov. 8) he hailed with acclamation as the candidate of the great and growing party who prefer liberty to the Union, and the most formidable competitor that could be run against Mr Lincoln. Governor Sep moor has hitherto been braver in speech than in action. In the case of the World and Journal of Commerce he is so clearly in the right and Mr Lincoln is so clearly in the wrong that the friends of State Rights believe he has at last mustered up courage to make a stand. He has done it in a way that has es much offended and surprised the advocates of centralization and arbitrary power as it has gratified the hitherto timid but numerous class who think dominion too dearly purchased at the price of constitutional freedom, and who only want a leader o' acknowledged ability and boldness o become the dominant party. A short time will Show whether Governor Seymour will maintain the high position he has assumed, whether General Dtx THE SUN, LONDOisT, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1864 will see his chance and take advantage of it, or whether Mr. Lincoln will deprive them both of their opportunity by allowing the laws of the State to take their course against himself personally, and pleading military necessity and the Indemnity Act as justifi.9 cation of his act acd a bar against the penalty. In this latter case no immediate decision will be ob tained. The whole matter will have to go before the Supreme Court. Long before it reaches which tribunal Mr. Lincoln will either be "D:ctator" with enlarged power, or an obscure lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois—no longer of sufficient political importance to be worth the troub!e of prosecuting. The supporters of Governor Seymour insist that he is in earnest ; :hat he will, to the utmost extent of the means placed by the people at his disposal, resist the encroachment of the Federal power. They urge also that his previous moderation, caution, and forbearance are but so many proofs that he will act with dignity and determination when cir cumstances have provided him with so strong and unmistakable a ciao as that which General Dix, acting on Presiden tal authority, has so opportunely Afforded. The appeal by the Governor of New York to the merchants, bankers, and other wealthy citizens, to advance, by way of loan to the State, the sums ne cessary to pay in gold the interest upon the debt held by Englishmen and other foreigners, has had but little effect. Not above a quarter of the neces sary funds has been thus provided for,. and the whole proposal has fallen to the ground, and been abandoned by the Chamber of Commerce, the body which first took np the subject as a matter of public duty and promised to carry it to completion. It appears that some portion of the principal has already been paid off in greenbacks, and for that reaeon the Chamber has decided that it is of no use to pay the interest of the remainder in gold-4 the debtor having done partial injustice, it is better that he should continue to do injustice than that he should lay himself open to the accusation of incon sistency by suddenly becoming honest. Governor Seymour, however, may claim the merit of having seen the right Course and dared to pursue it, and may leave to the Legislature the shame of a quasi repudiation, and to the mercantile community ot this great city such portion of the disgrace as is Implied in its tacit acquiescence in that which it knows to be dishonourable, and the stigma of which it might have removed if it had been half as much in love with the public credit as with private moneymaking. The great State of Ohio has had even less shame than New York, and it has repudiated the obliga tion of paying in gold a debt contracted in gold, without so much as a remonstrance from any con• stituted anthority entitled to speak in its name. Yesterday week the auditor Secretary of State, and Attarney-General of Ohio, constituting the Board of Fend Commissioners, arrived in this city to pay the semi-annual interest of the Ohio public debt, aue July 1, a debt amounting to about 13,000,00') dole, for the mcst part held in England and Oar. many. They paid in greenbacks, and thus tender to the foreign creditor a mere composition, at the then rate of gold, of 403 on the dollars, or 8s on the pound sterling. Tais may not be called eithe r robbery or repudiation ; but it is marvellously like the one, and is certainly a very considerable stride towards the other. At some future day, perhaps, New York and Onio may be again b want of funds to carry out some project of internal improvedlent or public utility, and may issue proposals to the c ipitaiists of Europe to advance them gold on such security as New York or Ohio can offer. But if, under the circumstances, Englishmen and Germans do not button up their pockets they will deserve to lose their money, and will merit as little sympathy as any bumkin at a fair who permits himself to be swindled by a ring dropper. DENMARK AND GERMANY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Vines.) ELSINORE, July 17. There is news in circulation here this evening about an armistice being concluded between the bel ligerent Powers up to the end of the present month. Likewise, it is said, that the preliminaries of peace have been agreed upon, thanks to the good offices and friendly mediation of the Emperor of the French. The Danes, we are given to understand, consent to raise the blockade by sea ; but we do not hear either that the Germans are :o withdraw from Jutland, or that they are even to give up the " civil d ministration e., spoliation and oppression of that luckless province. After the fail of Ale, be it remembered, we had already a most perfect de facto armistice; the new agreement, if the intelligence is confirmed, will impose upon Denmark far harder terms than were allowed to her during the negoti ations of the London Conference. Germany has for the present the game in her own hand. The Schleswig-holstein difficulty has ceased to be either a Danish or an European question ; but it has become essentially and formidably German. Very great exertions are made by the agents of M. Biemark in the Duchies, with a view to bring a de claration of popular suffrage in favour of annexation to Prussia. Strong appeals are addressed to some of the most advanced and most influential leaders of the Danish party in Schleswig,and chiefly in Flensburg, to represent to them, what is, indeed, too true, that the Duchies are irreparably and for ever lost to Denmark, and to impress them with the ncleion that, under such circumstances, it is for the interest no less than for the honour of the Schleswig•Hol steiners, rather to belong to a great compact mon archy like Prusda, which can hardly fail within a very short period to extend its sway over all Ger many, than to set up an Augusten burg or an Olden berg of their own—a beggarly Kinglet, whose very existence could only be insured by his submission to the supremacy of some of the great Powers. The Prussian Mephistopheles has no great hesitation i n showing the cloven foot. Elated by his portentous political no less than military success, he-throws out clear hints of his intention s b o th to snub the Frank fort Diet,and to crush the National partYi so as equally to ground its imperial sway on the annihi lation of the revolution, an d th e s ubjugation of the minor States. Prussia h o ld s , f or the moment, f°the sword by the hilt," and th ere i s nobody to dispute her will throughout Germany, either in the field or the Cabinet; nobody with the exception of her ancient rival Austria, who, moreover , can be alwa y s held in check by Fra nce , w h e never Prussia may deem it necessary to p rop i t i a te the latter power by the tempting bait of th a t " m ere slip of territory on the valley of the Sar re ." All this is, howev er , very high play, and P ru ssia may still find that sh e h as t o o far presumed on her calculation of chances. A Prussian party is not ago, before the spiked helmets had easily to be got up i n the D uc hi es . It was not easy five months go, shown themselves t o th e north of the Elbe and the Eider ; it is fa r l ees easy now , since Schleswig-Hol steiners have h a d opportun ities to appreciate the regime of the Prussian Commission ers. Whether we may sympa t hi ze w i t h th e m or not, we cannot deny that a la rge party o f Schleswig-Holsteiners, perhaps merely out of regard for their engagement and the sacredness of their word, continue staunch to the cause of A ugusten burg. The cannon and the bayonet alon e w il l have powerto Prussiantze them ; and M. von Bi smar k ma y best know to what extent he may ventu re upon imposing himself by main force upon th e D uc hi es , viz., to what extent he may feel equal to the task of treading out the last embers of German national aspirations, both in those Dachies and throughout the extent of Vaterland. In the interests of peace and order, in the inte rests of German unity itself, it would, no doubt, seem natural to wish the strong-minded Berlin statesman a happy fulfilment of his dark and daring policy. M. von Bi smar k, to give him his due, seems to be the cnly man in Germany well aware of what he is driving at. H o is a man of absolute tenden cies, overbearin ,unscrupulous ; but there is onl y one instance in E urope of a nation being brought any other g together by agency than the strong will of an unsparing, unprincipled despot. May be, M. von Bismirk is destined to be the Louis XI. or Henry VII. of Germany ; destined, that is to say, to tread down all discordant elements of the Princes and people of the Confederacy, as those monarchs levelled with the ground all the inequalities of old French and English feudalism, Germany, as she is now, is cer. tainly an anomaly and an anachronism in Europe, and the end of so absurd a state of things must needs be brought about either by a tyrant or by a mob. Were Bismark to fail, German convulsions may perhaps take as much space in the annals of the latter part of the 19th century as French com motions occupied in the historical page of the close of the 18th. As to what concerns Denmark, there seems to be little doubt that M. von Bismark is the only man from whom she may expect endurable terms. In the great task that the Prime Minister of Lag William has taken upon himself, no man can aid him so efficiently as King ChristiAn IX. It was less to the dynasty or to the State of Denmark that Prussia declared war than to what is gene rally called the " Copenhagen mob." Democracy has shown bat little tact, understanding, or gene. rosity in these Northern climates ; it is for the interest of Denmark, no less than of Germany, that it should be put down. Upon terms of a cordial co-operation in this reactionary work, the Danish Government may obtain as advantageous peace, and on no other conditions. There is reason to be lieve that the new advisers of the Crown here are aware of the real bearing of the situatiox, and pre pared to act accordingly. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the committee of the House of Lords eon chtded its inquiry into the bill for the Metropolitan (Trinity square Extension), and passed it. The bills passed in other committees, after a formal inquiry, were those for the Lon don, Brighton, and South Coast (additional powers); Neath and Brecon Extension; South Eastern (No. 4 Bill) ; and South Wales Mineral Railway. The Piers and Harbours Confirmation Bill was considered in the Earl of Devon's committee, the case being stated by Mr Mandell. MANCHESTER. SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN• SHIRE The report of the directors states that the acoounts for the past half year show a total revenue from all sources of £379,519, a total expenditure of £l7l, t7O, and a balm:too ot uet profit of £208,348, which, with the balance of £5,483 from the previous half year, gives a total sum of £213,832 available for interest and dividend. The debenture and other interest chargeable against the revenue of the half year amounts to £59,826, the canal annuities to £ 14,143, and the dividends on the various classes of preference stock and shares to £84,713, making a total charge of £158,682, leaving a balance of £55,150, out of which the directors re commend that a dividend be paid at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock of the company. leaving a balance of £1,249. The traffic receipts for the half year amounted to £334,538, for the corresponding half of 1863 to £.82 428, showing an increase of £52,110. The local traffic amounted to £173,021, and the foreign traffic to £161,517. The Grimsby Dock dues and wharfage amounted to £3,279 for the past half year against £3,456 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing a decrease of £i77. The quantity of coal shipped at Grimsby was 62,639 against 65,747, showing a decrease of 3,108 tons. The falling off in the shipment of coal during the half year is attri butable to the lockout of the collieries in the South Yorkshire district. The company's share of the net profits of the South Junction Railway amounts to £9,353 against £8,184, showing an increase of £I, 09. The revenue ot the canals shows an increase of net profit ot £3,464 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Toe working expenses amounted to £,56,451 against £152,359, showing an increase of £10,902. The act for leasing the undertaking of the South Yorkshire Company received the Royal assent on the 233 June, and the workirg of the rail way and canals has been consolidated with that of this com pany since the Ist inst. During 14 weeks of the half-year 11 out of 18 of the colliers on the South Yorkshire Railway have been locked out, and a much less amount of coal traffic has in consequence been carried; but, notwithstanding these disturbing canoes, the traffic for the half year shows an increase of nearly £5,000 over the corresponding period last year. The expenditure on capital account during the half year amounts to £212,258, of which £61,923 is for sub scriptions to other companies, £67,999 for works and sta tions, and £53,575 for new rolling stock. The Garston and Liverpool line was opened on the Ist of June for public traffic. The total expenditure on capital account to the 30th of June amounted to £10,427,272, leaving a balance of £23,570. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, July 21, CROWN SIDE. (Before (Mr Baron Martin.) THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ARSON. Mrs Margaret Grant, a laiy •like looking person, very handsomely dressed, and stated in the calendar to be 39 years of age, the widow of Major Grant, late paymaster to the 61st regiment, who was kil.ed at Delhi during the Indian mutiny, surrendered to take her trial upon an in dictment for felony, the offence alleged against her being !hat she did feloniously and maliciously set fire to a dwel ling house in her occupation, with intent to injure and defraud the owner of the premises. The Hon. G. Denman, Q.C., was specially retained, with Mr Roupell, to conduct the prosecution. Sergeant Ballan tine, Sergeant Parry, and Sir G. lioneyman, were specially retained on behalf of the prisoner. Sergeant Ballantine, when the case was called on, made an application to the court for the postponement of the trial to the next assizes. He did so upon au affidavit made by Mr Teesdale, of the firm of Maples, Teesdale, and Co., solicitors for Mrs Grant, which stated that certain officers belonging to her Majesty's ti Ist Regt., to which the husband of Mrs Grant was in his lifetime paymaster, were essential and necessary witnesses for the defence, to prove the cir cumstances in which the prisoner was left at the death of her husband, and also to speak to her character, and that as the regiment had been ordered for Ireland, it was im possible to procure the attendance of these officers at the present assizes. Upon this ground the learned counsel ap pealed to the court to postpone the trial. Baron Martin said he was unwilling to postpone any trial unless good and sufficient cause was shown fur doing so, and in the present case it appeared to him that evidence of the kind alluded to by the learned sergeant would not be ad missible or relevant upon such a charge as arson, and that the character. or at all events the circumstances, ot the pri soner had nothing whatever to do with such a charge. Ebe absence of witnesses to speak on these matters, it appeared to him, therefore, was no ground for a postponement of the trial. Sergeant Ballantine said he should venture to suggest that, with reference to one of the counts of the indictment imputing to the prisoner an intention to obtain money by the act imputed to her, it was most important and essential to show she was possessed of ample means, and had con siderable property, and that it wss therefore vary improbaole that she should have been actuated by any such motive as that imputed to her. He would remind his lordship that in ordinary cases of this description, it was the common course to bring forward evidence that the party accused was under pressure, and in debt, as a reason why it was likely that he should endeavour to obtain money by the commission of such an offence, and it appeared to him to be open to a pri soner to show that no such state of things existed, and that evidence of this description was most material in a charge of this kind. Baron Martin said he was still of opinion that evidence of the character alluded to could not be received, but he should be glad to hoar what Mr Denman had to say in re ference to the application for a postponement. Mr Denman said that he and his learned friend were in structed to prosecute by the authorities of the town of Brighton, and the only object they had in view was that a full inquiry, and such a one as would be likely to be satisfac tory to the public, should take place. Under these circum stances, and a representation being made that witnesses were absent whose evidence would be material on behalf of the prisoner, he did not feel himself called upon to resist the application, and he should leave the matter entirely in the hands of his lordship. Baron Martin then said that he would allow the trial to be postponed, but he wished it to be understood that he would not have consented to the postponement if the couneel for the prosecution had not agreed to such a course being adopted. His lordship then inquired into the present amount of the recognisances into which the prisoner had entered fur her appearance to take her trial ? Mr Avery, the officer of the court, informed him that the present recognisances of the prisoner were—herself in £5OO with two securities in £250 each. Baron Martin said that the prisoner would be again ad mitted to bail, lout he thought the recognisances ought to be increased, and that she herself should enter into a re cognisance in the sum of £l,OOO and fiud two sureties in 2500 each. In the course of the morning the required sureties were entered into, and the prisoner was then discharged from custody, and left the court accompanied by her daughter, an elegantly dressed young lady, and several of her friends. A prisoner named Job Snook alias James Macey, was then placed at the bar to receive judgment. lie had pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously setting fire to a stack, and it appdared that he had been previously convicted of a similar offence, and sentenced to penal servitude. When he was broaght into the dock, the pri soner conducted himself in the most violent and outrageous manner. Ile raved like a madman, and shrieked out, " Why don't you hang me—hang mo at onco—l want to be hanged—you can't do worse to me than you have done ;" and it required all the exertions of two of the county con otabulary and a warder belonging to the gaol to hold him in the dock. Mr. Linton, the governor of Petworth gaol, stated to the Court that the prisoner had been perfectly quiet down to he present time, and that he had no doubt that his present fit of violence was entirely assumed. Baron Martin said he was of the same opinion, and he then addressed the prisoner, and said that be bad pleaded guilty to a very serious offence, that of wilfully setting fire to and destroying the property of a man who had never done him an injury, and that he had been solely actuated by a feeling of revenge and malice against all the world. He found that in addition to this he had, while in the army, been p mished no less than a dozen times for different acts of insubordination, and that he had been at length dis charged as a worthless character, and that since this he had been also convicted of the crime of arson. He felt it his duty, under these circumstances, to order him to be kept in penal servitude for the space of ten years. The moment the sentence was pronounced the prisoner appeared to become almost frantic with rage. He kicked and bit at the officers, who were endeavouring to restrain him, and yelled out, " I have been flogged a dozen times, you can only flog me to death. I want to be hung ; hang me at once." With great difficulty he was carried to the cells below, where it appeared that he tore off the whole of his clothes, and it was found necessary to handcuff his hands behind him, to prevent him frona doing further mischief. This concluded the criminal business. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—It would seem as if India and the Colo nies had in the last few years changed places with each other. For a long time the whole attention of those who feel it their duty to object to little wars and nip the germs of future expenditure in the bud was directed almost exclusively to India. That fer tile soil produced with truly tropical fecundity a rich undergrowth of troubles of alt sorts, a jungle in which every Minister was sure to be more or less entangled, while a succession of deficits excited no unreasonable alarm for the future destinies of the empire. On the other hand, deep sleep and imper turbable tranquillity seemed to have descended on the placid realm over which the Secretary for the Colonies presided. From the end of the last Cape war to the beginning of the troubles in New Zea land, the Colonies had enjoyed uninterrupted repose. Now, however, the Maori war and the Ashantee war, and possibly another Kaffir war, sorely try the temper of the British Legislature ; while there is no point of the horizon where the weather is so rair as Indio. The annual statement of the Indian Budget last night, which seems to be connected indissolubly with the introduction of the Appropriation Bill, presents a gratifying picture of progress, economy, and improvement. Whichever way we turn we meet with the most convincing proofs that we have at last hit upon a plan which is destined to develops to the utmost the industrial capacities of India, and to preserve the wealth which she creates for the purposes of rs production. Within the last five years India has exchanged a deficit of fourteen millions for a surplus of several hundred thousand pounds, end that in spite of a deficiency in the article of opium alone of no less than £1,600,000. The Income Tax is, indeed, a failure. The Indian trader is .not proof against the temptation which the virtue of the English trader has not been alto gether able to resist, and it is announced that the tax is to be abolished as a part of the general revenue, and only retained for the purposes of local taxation. The Government salt monopoly in Bengal has also been abolished ; but the result does not seem to be that the natives avail themselves of those boundless supplies of salt which they were said to possess but rather to throw the whole trade, so far as the Presidency of Bengal is concerned, into the hands of the Cheshire salt manufacturers. An immense duty is imposed on imported salt without exciting the slightest domestic competition. A cry is very netrarelly raised for the reduction of this tax, and it certainly does seem very hard to burden one of the first necessaries of life with so enormous an impost. On the other hand, the water-drinking, rice-eating coolie is very apt to escape from taxation altogether, unless it is levied either on the salt which is neces sary for his health, or on the Manchester piece goods which supply his scanty clothing. We have succeeded in greatly raising the condition of the Indian poor; we have obtained for them money, but we have not been able to teach them how to spend it. Tney are still lamentably thficient in that first distincion of advancing civilisation, the innumer able and complicated wants of the European. They will not drink tea, nor use sugar, nor wine, nor tobacco, and eo oar best excuse for continuing the enormous salt duty is that, unless we tax salt, they would attain an absolute immunity from taxation. Meanwhile the land revenue, the ;great reliance of Indian finance, is increasing in the way we would have it increase, not by the raising of the assessment, but by the greater breadth of land which is brought into cultivation. The measures for decentralising the Legislature of India by the establishment of minor Councils in the three Presidencies, and the admission of natives to the Council of the Governor- General, have fully answered expectation. The Legislatures have made useful laws, and the natives have shown not only ability—which they were sure to do—bur self-confidence and independence, which were by no means so certain. In the Courts of Jus tice barristers and civilians work together with the best resurts, t he barristers teaching the civilians law, and the civilians giving the barristers information as to the manners, customs, and local peculiarities of the Datives. The two codes of procedure—civil and criminal—have got rid of arrears and reduced the length of causes from an average of three months to en average of eight days. The first of the codes is formed on the principle of examining the parties before the judge instead of making use of written pleadings. The second has abolished an inthettnent, and substituted for it the name of the crime charged, and a reference to the article of the code by which it is forbidden and punished. No doubt the great prosperity in India, and the rise in the price of labour and other commodities are due mainly to that rise in the price of cotton of which Sir Chas. Wood somewhat ungratefully complains for having raised the price of food and injured the prosperity of native manufactures. These are small matters when compared with the immense influx of capital and diffusion of comfort among the lower class of the community which have arisen so sud denly from the creation of this new and lucrative market. Whatever be the injuries that the Anse. ricen civil war has done to Lancashire it has unques tionably regenerated India, but this process would not have b"en so sudden nor so complete had not a wise and provident Government prepared the way for this new burst of prosperity by piercing the vest interior with railroads, by putting the finances in order, and by employing persons able not only to adapt English institutions to Indian use, but to in vent new principles to meet Indian wants when the principles' already known seemed not to be fit for the purpose. The picture of foreign policy in India is as gratifying as that of domestic improvement. We have at last learnt in India that indifference which we are endeavouring to learn in Europe. Three sons of Dos!. Mohammed Khan are fighting for the possession of the Afghan throne, and we in former times should have had our favourite and our enemy, and been busy with intrigues to support the one and supplant the other. As it is we look on with perfect indifference at the unnatural conflict, ready to enter into friendly relations with the conqueror, and to give the conquered, if he escape the sword or bowstring, an asylum within our dominions. Surely this is better than the costly folly of 25 years since. We have unintentionally excited the jealousy of one Hill Tribe while chastising another, and suf fered severely in consequence, while in the wild and mountainous region of Bhootan our Envoy has been insulted and our complaints scornfully rejected. Time was when this would have led to a war, but now we content ourselYes with occupyingthe passes by which Bhootan is connected with the rest of the world, and trust to this kind of land blockade to bring our refractory neighbours to reason. Such is the outline of the Indian Budget. Its statements are not only gratifying in themselves inasmuch as they tell of peace and prosperity, but also from the promise they give that our Government wilt be conducted on principles which render that prose perity durable. HERALD.—The Bill for the Relief of the Casual Poor, just brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Villiers and Mr. Gilpin, as a . Goverment mea sure, suggests a r eme dy for the crying abuses of the present system which, though right in principle, is defective in its details. It is but common justice that the eastern metropolitan districts should be freed from the burden under which they labour, from being impelled to relieve the vagrants of other districts, as well as the resident poor of their own ; and the only means by which the undue pressure on them could be alleviated is by the plan we sug ges t e d in a former article on the subject—a rate in aid-- whether derived from a trifling tax, levied on those who are able to take public amusements, to which admission i s paid for, or by a general tax on ail classes, those who cannot afford indulgence in pub lic amusements as well as those who can. For our selves we should prefer the French method of obtain ing the necessary revenue; first, because it would be levied trompersons who could afford to pay ; and . pees. because . could be collect e d w i t h out diffi cu l ty and would be willingly paid by thos e ca ll e d u p on i to contribute to t. The demand of an extra six pence for the entrance to a theatre of his family of s i x persons would never be resisted by Peter families, when ho reflected that his own and his children's amusement might contribute, even in a small degree, to alleviate the sufferings of the homeless and forlorn. A tax of some descrip tion is absolutely necessary, and therefore the measure proposed m us t b e grate f u ll y ac cepted in lieu of a better one; but w h en we come to examine the manner in which the money raised is to be sppro• printed we conceive that the mode of its application is altogether objectionable. One of the greatest and best founded objections against the present method of reli ev i ng t h e casua l poor is, that it affords no check on what may b e termed perpetual veg . ram, ; and that, besides supporting those who really require assistance, from unexpected or unmerited adversity, the different unions are compelled to main tain a body of the worst description of miscreants, who, taking advantage of the asylums afforded then:lt make a regular round of visits to each, returning at night, moat frequently, to those in which they re ceive the best treatment, while passing their days in the streets, lounging about in idleness or occu pied in the commission of crime- It is clear that this class of persons should be diminished or g ot rid of, either by forcibly sending them to their o va parishes, if in the country, or by keeping them in the workhouses of their own unions should they h ° chargeable in the metropolitan districts. The terr or of restraint and the certainty of being obliged to labour for their subsistence might deter them fr om having recourse to casual relief, and drive them to seek some honest employment by which they co uld win a livelihood ; but the plan proposed by th e Government measure for defray ing the expenses , their support is one very likely to increase instead of diminishing the evil of systematically practised car rancy. Censured as they have hitherto been fo r their harshness of manner and cruel rejection 0 1 applicants, with the object of lessening the rate ° f their districts, the poor law officials will most likely err in the opposite extreme, and be but too liberals in the hope of acquiring popularity at the expense of others. Admissions will be obtained wish less difficulty and on a larger scale. The dietary wi ll be of a more liberal description, and this IE I % O of admission and increase of comfort will give a new impetus to the demand for both, and n° doubt largely augment the numbers of a class ft° lll , which society in general suffers. The " tramp' taking his rounds as usual, and returning after what he calculates a reasonable interval, will agai n present himself and be again received by th e masters, who may take a malicious pleasure in, thus teaching the public the cost of unlimit e d benevolence. To this source of additional expens e must be added the certainty of a considerab le additional outlay, in the employ,nent of an extrl staff of clerks at bead - quarters, and the increase 0f officers at the workhouse, or augmented allowances to those already there, as compensation for the additional labour imposed upon them in keeping, complicated and difficult accounts. By the bil l now published no power is given to the officers Or the unions to detain the habitual claimants for casual relief, either for the purposes of sendiug teem home or compelling them to remain in th e houses; and so they will be obliged to dismiss an d !eave them at liberty to betake themselves else' where. On a former occasion we ventured to sur gest that casual relief should only be administere d in separate establishments—say, one for men E nd another for women, or more if necessary, in diffe rent parts of the metropolis. This wunid prevent the possibility of the habitual vagrant's carrying on his present rotatory system, because he could obtain admission nowhere else; and it would enable, the cut horitise to detect imposition, and to compe l those walking spectres who shock foreigners in our streets, to betake themselves to the houses they have a right to enter, instead of trading on th e compassion of persons ignorant of their devices to excite sympathy or their unwillingness to accept the public support to which the law entitles that. The method of relieving casual distress which w e propose would be less expensive thee that eta bodied in the Government measure; it would ce less complicated in its details, and mote efficacio us in diminishing, if it did not altogether eradiest e t the evil of permanent vagrancy in London. Hous e: suitable for its purposes could easilybe found 9 : low rents in the districts where they won d 68 most required ; and we trust that its advantag e s may not be lost eight of as the Ministerial b il l passes through the house. COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHESTER—THURSDAY. A fair attendance at our market to-day, but the business passing was moderate English wheat brought the ea treme rates of this day se'nnight, and for foreign an 0 , 1 vanes of id to 2d per cental was realised. Favourite no r* of tresb-made flour 6d per sack dearer, and ether sorts flr° 3 ; Oats and oatmeal both in favour of sellers. English bel l) ; again advanced is per qr. Indian corn and Egyptian L eo saleable at 6d per qr more money. BURTON. ON-TR A small show of grain at advance of 6,1 to is on who other articles unaltered. Old white wheat..42s to 46s Old red wheat, 405 New do. . 44s to 48s New do. ..38s to 40 6 Malting barley....32s to 35s Oats 212 to 4.'2933 Grinding do ....26a to 30s I Beans 3 48 to Xi's to .ENT—THIIRSDAY. our market, and we quote all eat. Barley rather dull. an BIRMINGHAM—THURSDAY. There was a rather short supply of English wheat at market to-day, and last week's prices were is to 2s higher' Barley and oats each 6d, brans and peas is per qr dearer. —English wheat was sold at 43s to 470 for white, and 38° to 45s per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 30s to 388 per qr ; grinding, 24s to 26s Oats, old, 22s to V° per ;30 stone; Irish, 20s to 245. Beans, 38s to 40s per 6 r. Peas, 34s to .38s per 36 stone. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. Our market was thinly attended by farmers and clea le r l , h. . The show of English wheat was mod erate , w hi c h Wet a slow demand at former rates. Foreign quint. A. prat,: fair business doing in barl e y. O a t s i n li mite d show, and 6d higher. Beans and peas each fully i s p e r qr dearer. EDINBURGH GRAIN—JrLY 20. To• day there was a fair supply of g r ain, which sol d at ohm last week's prices. Wheat on the top 3s Od up... average Os 2d nP• Barley on the top Os 3d down • Oats on the top Os 2d up . average Beans on the top 2s Od up average averag e ) 2 : a l 6 3 :d d d d t t o: r. Avei age Prices. 6 1 1 Wheat. ; 42s 7d Oats. 210 40 4 I Barley 3os Id Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat........ h 64 qrs Sold 1141 qrs Barley... BB qrs Sold b 8 qrs Oats Beans 79 qrs Sold 79 qrs Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 18 Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. .. Alig' i . via Marseilles .. i Lug' iirazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. . Aug* 9 ,_. . 2 . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H e l ena .. J , IllY tlliins, Penang, and Singapore, vi a Southamptun..AlliPls . via Marseilles ...JILIY Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Jul 9 26 ' 2 India (Calcutta), and Ceyl on , v i a S ou th am pt on Auig.,, s , via Marseilles Atli f, 6 India (Bombay), via Southampt on J ull ` July Lu 2 2 via Marseilles Jul' Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, vi a S o utha m pto n Jul"' 2/. via Marseilles Newfoundland ..Aug . 3 " Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and Briti s h N. A mer i ca , by B r it. p ac k e t.. • • ••11-• by U.S. packet... • u , 1 , 2 2. by Canadian packet• 4 J All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Jul,' 29 ' California. and British Columbia.. THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY AND THE POLYTECSNI C ScnooL.—The French Emperor has signed a decree which the whole Imperial Library is to be reorganised. the same time he is busy with a project for transferring li la Polytechnic schools to Versailles. [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Ointment and Pale'' Never neglect a Cola.—lt is painful to hear of the Es t% fatal cases which commenc e d w ith t h e ordinary syntlit°'", of a common cold. Hollo wa y' s o i ntment ru bb e d u pon tN back and chest prevents a ll di sas t rous conseq uences; 1 stet soothes the inflamed lining of both throat and Chest. A. rubbing in the ointment for'a few days, the pectoral irrittift tion and the tightness of breathing diminish, the e y n ug .. becomes looser and less frequent, and the phlegm '6 e%eued torated with less difficulty, till the lungs become fre e ht respiration natural. All subject to take cold from a„ exposure to varying temperatures, will find H0110W 6, ,1 soothing ointment and purify ,ng pills an effective safeg ll6l— pleurisy, bronchitis, asthma, and consumption. Births. SIVILLE.—On the 20th inst., at Foulmire Rectory. p etit Royston, the Hon. M rs . Arthur Saville, of a daUgh t _ i . er. , WETHERALL.—On the 19 h inst., at Loddington, thamptonshire, the wif e o f C a pt a in T. Wetherell, late ,/ Dragoons, of a daughter. the WnorrEsLEY.—On the 20th inst., at Wilton-orescent, Hon. Mrs. Wrottesloy, of a son. Marriages. Ito Mu—We:ninst., ow—On the 2 0 th at All Saints' C.All -c a Leamington, Hilary Hill, E . q , of Worcester, to Franc Eliza, &mond daughter of F. P. Watson, Esq., Rui lao' House, Leamington. the 19th inst., at St. Paul's , o PARR—DOWNIE —On t ion, Thomas Roworth Parr, Lieut . ' . Rifle Brigad e ta, Mary Bridget, daughter of the late Sir Alexander .0" Downie. Deaths. „ at DANIELS —On the 20th inst., Abr a h am D an i e ls, •DE'r' 2, Modena-terrace, VecKharu. GREEN.—On the 17th inst., at Havoreroft, Yorkshire' Edwin Green, Esq., aged 60. of JENKIN.—On the 20th i ns t., M r . Ch ar l es L ew i s 51, Lime-street, city, aged 63. KNIGIIT.—On the 19th inst.,atEaling, George E,4q., aged 63. nog GnEENLAW.—On the 25th Ap r il , kill e d i n t h e ass ault N i a Chang• Chow, Chula, Richard Greenlaw, Lieut. Anglo-Chinese Contingent, and only son of the la te R. B. Greenl aw , rector of Bradwell, Essex, a ged 2 9 . us, Vhl Aida ICKESS.—On the 20th inst., at 1, Park-plsce osephV s. ickers, Esq., late of Borough' agedmarket Distillery, 8 of 00 WOOD.—On. the 18th inst Alexander W d, „ Woodcote,_ formerly one of the Judges of the SaP re— Courts of Scotland. London : Prfraed and Prtfished by WILLIAM ANDIO' 7 , 1 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TAE SUN Office Zi°• „f Strand, .n thy- Precinct of the 3avoy, a the Coin } ' Alildleaex,—Friday, July 22,1564,